Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Children of the Night ❯ Bound By the Shadows of Our Past ( Chapter 8 )

"All right I'll give you that," said Arora smiling as she sat up on his waist.

"So," said Yami slowly wrapping his arms behind his head. "What shall we do about us?"

"If you behave yourself, I'll consider it," smirked Arora because despite herself she found him interesting and his persistence was charming to say the least.

"Oh, really?" asked Yami raising an eyebrow at her.

"Yes."

"Very well," said Yami chuckling as he stared up at her. "I accept your promise."

"I bet you do," said Arora throwing her head back and laughing.

"Good," said Yami reaching up for her long silky black hair and pulling her back down to kiss her.

After awhile they lay there again starting up into the night sky in blissful silence.

"Why did you start up the Slyphers?" asked Arora after a moment as she ran her hand up and down his chest.

"What do you mean?"

"What made you want to start a gang?" asked Arora tilting her head up to look at him. "I mean did you just start it because you had nothing better to do? Or did you start it for some reason and now you just don't want to disband it or whatever?"

Yami stared into her blue eyes and frowned considering whether or not he should tell her the truth about what had happened. Why he had started the gang and why he still kept it around. If he told her then he would be revealing stuff to her that only Seto and Joey knew. That would mean he was accepting her as a member of his gang and that would mean that she would have to fight against her cousin. Something he knew she wouldn't do no matter what. The phase "blood is thicker then water" was very true with this young woman. He sighed coming to a decision.
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Mokuba slipped into his brother's room where the moon shone brightly down on him and Pernia who were asleep on the bed. Mokuba froze half way into the room taking in the teenagers who were asleep on the bed the dark blue silk covers coming up around their waists. Seto slept in the middle of the bed on his back his chest bare and being used as a pillow by Pernia who was had fallen asleep so that her back glistened in the moonlight. Mokuba shook his head knowing that now would not be a good time to tell his brother that the girl's father was on the phone demanding to know where she was.
"Mokuba?" asked Seto seating up and sliding Pernia off of him and onto the bed. "What is it? "Why aren't you in bed, asleep?"

Mokuba turned around to see his brother looking at him as he lit a cigarette.

"Pernia's father is on the phone wanting to know where she is?" asked Mokuba softly. "He sounds pretty pissed."

Seto glanced down at the phone to notice the regular phone line button was blinking.

"Alright Mokuba," said Seto picking up the phone and pushing the button to connect. "I'll take care of it."

"Okay," said Mokuba leaving the room after a moment.

"What do you want old man?" snarled Seto into the phone breathing smoke into the mouthpiece wishing it would somehow reach the bastard on the other line. "I was asleep."

"I am sure sleep was far from your mind," snarled the man on the other line his breath coming from his mouth. "Considering chances are my slut of a daughter is more then likely in your bed."

"Would you rather she be in your bed?" asked Seto raising an eyebrow.

"Bastard."

"Call my house again and I will make sure you can never lay a hand on your daughter again. In fact, I will make sure you never see the light of day again, if you harass her."

That said Seto hung up the phone and lay back in bed, pulling Pernia back into his arms and falling into a deep sleep.
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"I guess it wouldn't hurt to tell you what made me act the way I do and what binds me and my group together; however, I will only do it if you explain what binds your cousin and his little family together."

Arora sighed thinking for a moment she didn't want to tell him what bound her and her friends together, she didn't want to feel like she was betraying her family. She knew that if they found out what she had done they would be furious with her. She didn't want to be thrown back into the darkness, not again she hated the darkness always had always will. However, she guessed it would only be fair to tell him the dark shadows of their past just not all of it.

She sighed and slowly gave him his answer, "all right."

"Well," began Yami staring off into space. "To begin with my parents were killed in a car crash when I was six and me and Yugi had to move half way across Japan to live with our grandfather. Since Yugi was so short he was always getting picked on and I was always defending him."

"So all your fighting skills came from defending your brother?" asked Arora looking up at him.

"Yes," said Yami softly his beautiful purple eyes gazing up at the setting moon. "I started a gang because the older we got the more picked on we got and people were trying to bull my grandfather into giving up his store. Plus I guess all the excitement and thrill of the gang fights and motorcycle races helped take the pain away. Joey joined the gang because his father and mother split up when he and his sister were young and the two of them stayed with their mother until she died suddenly at the office when an ex boyfriend went into a jealous rage. They then moved back to Japan and in with their drunk abusive father I meet Joey in the third grade and we became friends after awhile. Seto and his brother were raised in an orphanage before getting adopted by a man that demanded perfection from Seto and ignored Mokuba. He joined me and Joey in the fourth grade and the four of us were `little terrors' of the school. Tristan is an only child and his parents are always working or out of town leaving him alone. He and Joey knew each other because they played at the same park together as kids. Tristan never felt like he belonged until Joey introduced him to me in the sixth grade. By then I had already started up the gang with Joey and Seto as my seconds.

"It wasn't until seventh grade that Duke and Mako were brought in, they were good fighters but no were near good enough to be in the gang. I let them in because they were friends of Joey. Duke's father like Seto's expected perfection from him and his twin sister. The punishment for being imperfect was severe. Duke's twin sister was shot because she chose someone that her father considered imperfect. Mako's problem is because he lived alone all the time because his mother left him and his father a long time ago and because his father was a fishermen he was hardly at home.

"Now the Amazons came in not long after that. Tea was a friend of Yugi's her parents kept pushing her to be a dancer and she pretended she liked it for awhile but all the pretending eventually got to her and she began to cut herself."

"If she was a friend of Yugi's then why is she hanging with you guys now?"

"She did something and we helped to bail her out and ever since then she as been in debt to us. Nikushimi joined for no reason other then because of Seto and Haria joined because, well she joined because of me. Mai joined because well Haria pissed her off one day when the blonde girl had wandered onto our territory and beat the shit outta her. She had gone to our school and Joey had noticed her A LOT. So we decided to bring her into our `little family'. Later we discovered that her mother abuses her by locking her in a small closet packed with stuff whenever she was bad. Pernia joined because well in eighth grade she and Seto had to do a Science project together and they started getting closer to each other and well one day Seto showed up at her house and found her father trying to rape her. He saved her and well brought her back to Kaiba Manor of course by now his father was dead and she now spends most of her time with him and his younger brother. Now that I have told you about my `family' why don't you tell me about yours?"
_____________________________________________________________ Bakura and Arashi lay on the floor covered in sweat from their previous activities.

"You've gotten better," smirked Bakura.

"Thanks," smirked Arashi her chest heaving up and down.

"Isis as changed you well," chuckled Bakura. "Of course not nearly as well as I have trained you."

"You are such a jerk sometimes," said Arashi getting to her feet and stretching her muscles.

"I know," chuckled Bakura propping himself up on his arms and taking in her curves and muscles that were showing off against the tight material of her pants and sports bra.

"And modest too," said Arashi rolling her eyes heavenward as she turned to look at him clothed only in a loose light blue pair of sweat pants, with his long platinum blonde hair in a ponytail.

Bakura laughed as she walked away from him taking off her boxing gloves. He jumped to his feet and rushed at her pinning her back against one of Arora's balance beams bending her over it.

"What do you want Bakura?" asked Arashi sliding her hands into his hair.

"I would assume that would be obvious," said Bakura attacking her neck with tiny bites and nips.

"Should we really be doing this in here?" asked Arashi, wrapping her legs around her waist.

"Why not?" asked Bakura. "Not like anyone is going to come in here."

"That's not the point!"

"No," agreed Bakura. "The point is we have done this in here before."

"Yes and your brother walked in and found us the morning after. Do you remember that?"

That got Bakura's attention he jerked away from her causing Arashi to drop to the floor.

"Sorry," muttered Bakura helping her back to her feet.

"Sure you are."

"Well," said Bakura slowly. "Since you don't seem to want to do it here. Why don't we go to my room?"

"Sounds like fun," said Arashi.

The two of them crept up the stairs and down the hall.

"Wait," said Bakura stopping at his cousin's door. "I want to check on something first."

"Bakura would you leave the poor girl alone she is in bed."

"We'll see," said Bakura opening the door.
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"I ended up living with Bakura and Ryu when I was six," said Arora softly. "After seeing my father rape and kill my mother and then kill himself. Bakura and Ryu took care of me always because their mother died giving birth to them and their father's business always brought him away from home. In the middle of third grade they introduced me to another set of triplets Malik, Marik, and Isis, they had known in kindergarten but they moved back to Egypt with the summer before I showed up. Their mother died giving birth to them and their father was very cruel to them, he would whip the boys with a cat of nine tails for being bad and every week would rape Isis. Something happened to him and the three of them moved back to Japan with Rashid, someone that a family friend had been raising.

"Okami was a rich girl that was raised by her grandmother, we meet her in the fourth grade at the park. She hated living by everyone else's expectations and happily ran around with us. Arashi lives with an older brother that spends all their inheritance from their parents on drugs, alcohol, and hookers, we would let her stay at our place whenever he had friends over. Umi, well her father sold her as a child porn star and when she got into eighth grade he would dress her up and show her off as his girlfriend. Bakura started this gang because we all needed a real family to take care of and to take care of us, since no one else would do it."

"Well," said Yami closing his eyes. "Looks like we are all bound by the shadows of our past."

"So," said Yami softly. "Did your father ever touch you?"

"What do you mean?" asked Arora.

"Did your father, ever rape you?"

Arora was silent for several minutes debating on whether or not to tell him the entire of her life before she was brought in by Bakura and Ryu's father. She wasn't sure she wanted to tell anyone about what really happened between her and her father, it was something that not even Bakura and Ryu knew. So did she really want to tell the Slypher King the entire darkness of her past?
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"Where is she?!" shouted Bakura storming back into the hall raising the other Gravediggers from their rooms.

"What's wrong this time?" asked Malik walking out in his black boxers with Okami on his back.

"Where is who?" asked Okami jumping off of his back and standing there wearing a tank top and pants with moon and stars on it.

"Arora is missing," said Arashi rolling her eyes. "She's not in her bed."

"Don't worry," said Isis stepping into the middle of the group and taking over. "We'll just search the mansion, she probably feel asleep in the library or something again."

"Right," said Rashid placing a hand on Isis' shoulder.

"Calm down brother," said Ryu scratching his head as he yawned from being woken up at such an early hour, seeing how it was working on one in the morning. "I am sure Arora is somewhere in the mansion, like Isis said. Let's just look for her."

"She had better be in this house or there is going to be hell to pay."